Judy Blume Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, Kids, Opportunity

• I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

• Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

• We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.

  Judy Blume

  Jobs, Growing Up, Blow

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, People, Stories

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Jun 06, 2012

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